The Portland daily press., 1887-05-17
BASE BALL.
New England League.

PoRTLANDs, II; BOSTON BLUES, IA.
Eight hundred people witnessed long and
tiresome game at the ball grounds yesterday.
1t was exciting at times, but it was loosely
played and long drawn out, so that although
the home club won it was not as satisfactory
a victory as it ought to have been. Capt.
Gardner Of the Bostons out-kicked all the
kickers that have ever been on the Portland
grounds and in his efforts to give his young
pitcher breathing spells he got the crowd
down on him, and this resulted in his own
players getting ratified at times. He took
such slight excuses to delay the game that it
got to be disgusting. But he didn't gain any
points by it, with the possible exception of
giving his pitcher a few breathing spells,
and that didn't prevent the latter from being
batted pretty hard. To show the absurd
point Gardner raised we give the following:
The ball was batted over the fence, and
when it was returned 1t rolled under the
spectators seats. A few moments after, the
other ball was batted over, and then Andrus
went down and tried to find the first one.
Mr.. Spence left the players bench then and
went out, and in moment the last ball lost
was bOoctQ OfOl thO AChNC iulo bAlC
Gardner then declared that Mr.. Spence went
out and got an old ball and threw it over the
fence and he refused to play. His ruffled
feathers were smoothed down after a while,
though, and play was resumed.
The Portlands presented Burns and DufTey
for battery, and the former did not show
up well at all. He was wild and Indifferent,
and while he might have been trying his
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scored ten runs in three innings, and then
Hatfield was substituted, with Thayer to
catch. Hatfield was not as effective as usual
either; neither was he as wild as usual, but
he did very well for such day. Clare and
Mo0lic Officiated for the Blues, and the
former started in as wild as Burns did The
Portlands scored six runs In the first inning,
three men getting their bases on balls. At
the end Of the third inning the 10 to in
favor of the Blues. Hatfield got his base on
balls in the fourth, stole second and came
home on Davin's three-bagger a moment
after. The latter scored on wild throw,
and the next two men went out Then Luf-
berry got hit and took second and third ON
an error by Burns, which also placed Burns
(the Portland NAM on second. Both scored
on Andrus' hit, and the Portlands were one
ahead. Hatfield went in to pitch in the last
half OF the inning, and one run was earned
on hits by Gardner and Burns, making the
score tie. The score remained IL to II
the seventh Andrus got hit, stole second
and went to third ON an error Of Sheehan's,
which also placed Diekerson ON first. The
latter stole second, and then Thayer popped
up fly, which Gardner dropped. Andrus
scored on this error, and Hatfield took first,
Thayer second and Dickerson third ON a
muffed fly by Burke. Dickerson was put out
in running home, and moment later Thayer
and Hatfield scored on a double by DAWN.
The latter took third on an error and came
home on put out at first. This gave the
Portlands quite lead, but the Blues got
dangerously near again in their half of the
inning by scoring three runs on two singles
and double, base on balls and wild
pitch. Neither side scored in the eighth,
but in the ninth Hatfield hit for first. stole
second and came home on Davin's hit. The
latter took second on an attempt to put out
Hatfield and came home on Schoeneck's
double. The big first baseman attempted to
make Il triple and got put out at third.
This closed the run getting. The first one
OF the Blues in the ninth went out on fly
catch, the next got hit and the third got
his base on balls. Both were advanced
base on passed ball, but Sheehan went out
at first before they could score. With
good chance to tie by making the right kind
Of hit, Manning stepped to the plate and in
q moment the ball was sailing towards the
left corner in way that betokened a home
run. But it dropped inside and Dickerson